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Samson ben Pesah Ostropoli

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Segulah for Erev Pesach from Rabbi Shimshon ben Pesach Ostropoli

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Rabi Shimshon de Astropolia- רבי שמשון מאוסטרופולי

Samson ben Pesah Ostropoli, was a Polish rabbi from Ostropol who was martyred at Polonnoye, Volhynia, during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. When the Cossacks laid siege to Polonnoye, Samson, with 300 of his followers, arrayed in their shrouds and praying-shawls, went to the synagogue, and stood there praying until the enemy came and butchered them all.